2015-01-17 - Crash! Mesozoic Mayhem
| Title: Crash! Mesozoic Mayhem | |
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| Summary: A battle of prehistoric proportions takes place on the streets of Tokyo! The past is present but no longer precedent, and the future will never be the same! | |
| Who: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy, Lancelot, Fuu Hououji, Japanese Cherry Blossom, Cardcaptor Sakura, La Sirene du Nord
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| Where: Chofu Suburban District | |
| OOC - IC Date: 11 May 2014 - 01/17/2015 | |
<Pose Tracker> Juri Arisugawa [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
It's a beautiful spring Sunday. Everything it should be: the sky is bright, the air is fresh, the trees are in mottled transition from bloom to leaf and the distant ocean is sweet.
Hobbyists are out in force. Runners run, their chests heaving like bellows to get all that air all the way from their lungs to their feet every second. Painters paint, easels set up along the riverbanks and under the trees, capturing the day's perfection along with more spectacular landscapes of their own imaginations. Adults amble; children play.
Dr. Velocity snarls.
She does not remember the precise moment of transition, when her priorities shifted from 'publish or perish' to 'predator and prey'. And the more analytical parts of her mind, the parts that got her hired young and brilliant at JAXA for a potentially epic astrophysicist career, would marvel at how her spotless white lab coat has somehow rewoven itself to properly fit her scaly shoulders. Her hide is like the starscapes that once enraptured her, blacks and blues beaded with yellow and white pebbles.
And her face, well... what big teeth you have, sensei.
She has spent the last few weeks working feverishly, somehow managing to work a keyboard with three dubiously prehensile claws. The image of her goal has burned brightly in her mind -- and now burns fiercely upon her nostrils.
"PReParE yOUrSelVES FoR reBIrTh, HuMaNIty!" she shrieks above the cheerful hubbub of the day, her voice rent to inhuman decibels, in some ways the most primal part of her transformation despite its having no visual component. Before, she was clipped, precise, just maidenly enough to be unobjectionable while manly enough to fit in as one of the guys.
Now she is simply monstrous. Little remains of distinctions that would actually matter, beyond that.
"BAthE iN My pRImoRdIal OoZe AnD KnOW ThAT The CHAngE Is niGH!"
Her tail whips out and pierces a water tower on the rooftop next to her. Out of it pours something too complicated to be described as green or gray or brown. It is all of these colors and none of them, constantly shifting between eyeblinks to become something else.
It is viscious, sticky, but flows in sufficient quantities as to gush over the rooftop and begin pouring down the street. Vines, once a sober ivy clinging to the nearby wall, are doused and emerge black and shiny and barbed, somehow more ancient and infinitely more dangerous. Grass becomes swamp. A cat mewls as it goes under, and the sound transmogrifies into a roar midbreath, the roar of a saber-toothed lion that lacks the beauty and majesty humanity had dreamed of for the age. It is huge, and its eyes are a very /un/natural red. Not to mention that poisonous spores seem to be rising off of its mottled, sickly yellow coat.
People... well, there are still a few seconds to prevent that discovery from ever taking place, as the wave of ooze crashes along the boulevard. There are no shortage of them in harm's way.
COMBAT: Takeo Akamizu transforms into Lancelot! COMBAT: Fuu Hououji transforms into Magic Knight! COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has fully healed herself. COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto transforms into Cardcaptor Sakura!
<Pose Tracker> Sakura Akagi [Juuban Public School (9)] has posed.
Sakura Akagi, Grade 9, is sitting out in the park enjoying the spring air, when she sees the Perfume Splash mascot, Mist, look over his shoulder worriedly.
She looks over and blinks back at him, wondering what the problem is.
"Smell...something strange."
"...Is it... a Dark Scent?" Sakura is already gearing up for trouble.
"Hm... no." Mist, the tiny dragon, sniffs the air again. "But..." Then there is that roar in the distance. "Something that's just not right!"
"Let's get moving!" Sakura jumps to her feet, rushing out as she starts to see vines twisting around in front of her.
She reaches for her perfume bottle, knowing now that this is real trouble! "Henshin! Cherry Blossom Splash!"
Japanese Cherry Blossom reaches the street just in time to see it become a swamp. But she doesn't yet see the source of all this danger. Mist is fluttering in the air on white butterfly wings, looking for the source of the scent of danger...
She does, however, see an older man running away from the ooze, and without thinking of herself, leaps in and moves him to a safe location where he's out of the way.
COMBAT: Sakura Akagi transforms into Japanese Cherry Blossom! COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom has used Civilian Rescue Patrol on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa accepts Japanese Cherry Blossom's Civilian Rescue Patrol, taking 0 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Lancelot [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
It had been one of those lazy Sundays that Takeo SHOULD have been doing Homework. Or he SHOULD have been doing chores around the house. Or he SHOULD have been visiting Mika at the Hospital. However, Takeo finds himself on the road, his Totally Awesome and Radical Motor Bike screaming down the street as he dodges in and out of traffic. He slides to a stop at a traffic light, ignoring the angered adults that he just cut off and tapping his toe impatiently. Which is when he hears the meow-roar. He raises the visor on his helmet and raises an eyebrow as he sees people running from the red gloop, spies the evil Saber Toothed Spore Lion.
His hand flies to the amulet under his motorcycle jacket. "I Swear to protect the innocent..."
Lightning flashes and arcs down from above. Armor materializes out of the striking ribbons of energy and adheres themselves to Takeo. A blade of pure white hot energy is formed by several bolts of lightning, and with a boom of Thunder, the blade is gripped by its hilt.
He leaps up in the air, the cloak now adorning his shoulders flutters as he lands on the back of a Warhorse that appears out of a shadow. "Come on Sparkles! We gota save the People!"
Sparkles nods and bolts forward. It was time to be big gosh darned hereos once more.
COMBAT: Lancelot has used Save all the Humans! on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Lancelot has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa accepts Lancelot's Save all the Humans!, taking 0 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Fuu Hououji [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed.
Fuu Hououji actually has to stop and double-check the time; it seems a little late for tokusatsu shows ...
Wait, that's not even special effects.
Fuu's hand dives into a pocket of her sweater for her glove-jewel; her laptop vanishes into it even before she finishes pulling the accessory on - and even before the glove is fully on her hand, she's calling out, "Belief becomes power; winds, guide me!"
The usual whirlwind swirls into existence around her in response to the transformation call, and she takes advantage of her boosted agility as soon as that effect sets in, scooping up a playing child and bounding away to higher, and hopefully safer, ground.
"I'm sorry to whisk you away like that," she smiles as she sets the boy down, "but something very dangerous is happening ... stay safe and keep your distance; I'll look for your parents and try to rescue them as well."
The startled boy just points at a couple across the street; they're already running from the tide of ooze. The Magic Knight looks, nods to the boy, and heads off to get the child's parents out of harm's way as well.
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Winds Against the Tide on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa accepts Fuu Hououji's Winds Against the Tide, taking 0 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Lucy Iwai [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed.
It's beautiful spring day, and Lucy is one of those runners who has been enjoying the perfect weather and scenery. Right now she's resting up a bit, sprawled out in the grass, the green of her hair getting lost amidst the blades as Didi waves a tiny towel over her face.
"I just don't know," she says, "it's that feeling in the pit of my stomach, as if something terrible were about to happen. But what?" "Eh, don't worry about it. It's been a while since we fought a Terrorsaurus, right?" "But what if it's just the calm before the storm?"
Didi doesn't have anything to say to that. He hasn't been able to sleep well last night, since Lucy has spent all of it tossing and turning. She was obviously having a nightmare, but didn't seem to remember it when the morning came. Hopefully it wasn't... well, /that/ dream.
A monstrous voice snaps her out of her worried reverie, and in no time at all, the young girl and her dinosaur are in crisis management mode.
"Didi!" "Right!"
The tiny dinosaur pulls out Lucy's club from her back and tosses it to her. She catches it just and she gets back on her feet, and holds it up.
"Rock of Ages!" she chants, "Make me shine!"
Light! Music! Sparkles! In a dazzling flash, Lucy's jogging outfit is replaced with the fur dress of the Mesozoic Maiden. A large, exotic flower pops into existence in her hair, and a set of blue war tattoos appear on her arms and face.
A moment later, she's riding onto the scene on Didi's back. With Lucy's magical help, the dinosaur has assumed his true, full-sized Tyrannosaur form. The duo stops, however, at the sight of the ooze and what it's doing to the surrounding area.
"This is horrible! Didi, we need to do something!"
A few of her friends are already on the scene, and Lucy is eternally grateful for that. It seems this is going to be one of those days where they need all the help they can get. She hasn't actually noticed the talking(??!) Terrorsaurus just yet. Her priority is getting people to safety, and she does this by giving them dino-rides just in the nick of time.
"Take my hand!" Lucy shouts to a bystander. "YO, IT'S COOL!" Didi bellows, "I'M A FRIENDLY DINOSAUR!"
COMBAT: Lucy Iwai transforms into Mesozoic Maiden Lucy! COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy has used We're Here To Help on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy has finished attacking. COMBAT: Nori Ankou transforms into La Sirene du Nord!
<Pose Tracker> La Sirene du Nord [Ohtori Academy (9)] has posed.
La Sirene du Nord was NOT out on this nice and sunny day. That would be tres gauche.
Nori Ankou however was having a seafood picnic underneath a very dense and shady tree near the water, up where some gnarled roots and stones made a place that wasn't very inviting for most people. It suits her fine, though, and is that an otter in the river? She'll never tell.
However, something begins spreading across the street. Nori Ankou looks up midway through a shrimp cracker when she hears something roar. Looking up, she stares in astonishment at the surge of ooze.
Batiste leaps out of the river and lands near her. "Cousin, come on!"
Reaching into her picnic hamper, the Black Mirror gleams -- reflecting that distant polysludge color in its gorgeous depths! "Twinned in the mirror--"
A few moments later, la Sirene du Nord bounds across the field, bringing a refreshingly cool presence to the increasingly primordial scene of chaos. "What devilry is this?!" she declaims as she spots the surging lion - which is what draws her ire, and her attention. The Black Mirror is held aloft, and with her other hand on her hip, la Sirene declares:
"Whatever wretched filth this may be, may the tears of the sky wash them free! Moondrops, come forth --" A sudden spray upwards from out of that slim black surface. "And burst!!" Once they've risen up, they gleam with lunar silver light, and bifuricate, trifuricate, and more - spreading out in a sudden storm of sparkling watery light!
La Sirene does not quite remember what cats do when they get wet. They never kept a cat at home. La Sirene is also momentarily distracted at the sight of a massive tyrannosaur -- even if it is firmly assuring them of its benign intentions!
COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord has used Moondrops Burst on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa accepts Mesozoic Maiden Lucy's We're Here To Help, taking 0 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa perfectly braces La Sirene du Nord's Moondrops Burst, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Critical Brace! Juri Arisugawa's Block ability activates!
<Pose Tracker> Sakura Kinomoto [Juuban Public School (4)] has posed.
"SA-KU-RA!" the winged beast cries out while the two were going about town, doing some shopping for dinner tonight for her father, Touya, and Yukito. The cry is enough to wake Sakura from her daydream before she catches the scent, to which both she and the stuffed animal-looking lion cringe.
"It smells worse than your brother's underwear after soccer practice! UGH!" the grousing beast puts a fingerless paw up to its nose, screeching and howling. "-Sakura, there's definitely somethin' weird about this smell, though!"
Equally sensitive to the smell, Sakura whines before reaching for her key. "Do you think it's a Clow Card?" Although she had grown in magical talent since becoming a Cardcaptor, she still had far to go in collecting the cards and attempting to read whatever situation as different between a Clow Card or your run of the mill supernatural problem.
"Nah, this isn't their work." The guardian beast pauses for a second before seeing the ooze come closer, "Sakura! Move it!"
There was not enough time for her to comfortably check her surroundings, but she began the incantation. Her hand grasps for the key around her neck before detaching it and throwing it out in front of her, "Key which hides the powers of the dark, show your true form before me!" The ever-so-familiar magical circle generated under her feet, with the yellow winds picking up and cloaking her to allow the transformation of the sealing wand. "I, Sakura, command you under our contract!" The bird head extended outward, from the form of a key to an elongated wand, "RELEASE!"
Once she grasped it, the card is brought in front of her face before throwing it in front of her and calling on the card to show its true form, "FLY!" Allowing the wand to grow wings, she saddled herself on the wand before taking off to the sky with the guardian beast. Upon seeing a small child stuck in a tree, she got its attention and allowed the young girl to ride along her wand before getting her to safer territory. "Be careful! It's not safe to be here!"
After being confident the child and both she and the guardian beast were safe, Sakura took once more to the sky to catch up with all the other magical friends and foes present.
COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto has used Sakura Airways Here to Help! on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa accepts Sakura Kinomoto's Sakura Airways Here to Help!, taking 0 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Juri Arisugawa [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
Down the road, a grandfather looks up at Japanese Cherry Blossom, rheumy eyes unable to quite comprehend the details of his savior. "My," he chortles, "What a nice fireman you are! Thank you, young lady!"
Just past her, the charging hooves of Lancelot's mighty steed churn up a decent chasm in the ground between the rolling ooze and a pack of kids who have the common sense to run for their lives, though the horse-fan among them has to be tugged on her pigtails -- twice -- before she joins her friends. Their soccer ball is abandoned, a casualty of war.
Down the block, a child is reunited with his parents courtesy of the Magic Knight of Wind. "Thanks lady! Your armor is really nifty! Is that a real sw--" Mom grabs him, tucks him under her arm, and puts more distance between themselves and the 'natural disaster', Dad in tow.
Sakura and Kero-chan's momentary ward still has peach blossoms in her hair from the tree she was in, and tears in her eyes. But she's awed by the cute witch on her broom with her cat (in times of stress, humans cling to recognizable narratives), and waves a more cheerful, full-armed goodbye before hurrying home.
That accounts for all the people who couldn't save themselves. Those who /could/ appear to all be running away at top speeds.
The velocidoctor is not amused. She hisses angrily, baring her fangs. "WHo aRe YoU tO ssssTaND In tHE wAY Of tHe FutURe?!"
Her arms lift, and the ooze itself responds to her call, tendrils combining into tree trunk-thick appendages. They rise sky high.
"IF yOU wIlL dENy mE mY subJECTs, yOu Can RepLAce thEM! TaSTe tHe NeXT EvoLUtionARy PatHwAy -- EmBRAcE wHaT YoU MuST beCoME!"
Then the ooze-arms come crashing down towards each of the kids trying to thwart it, with crushing force. They wholly engulf the cleansing shower from La Sirene, the corrupted sabertooth baring its fangs and charging. More of the ooze, which smells strongly of sulfur, rotten eggs galore, rolls down towards the river.
With distinctive PLOP sounds, frogs explode out of it, now engorged and a rather tropical purple and green.
COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Evolution Impact on Japanese Cherry Blossom. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Evolution Impact on Fuu Hououji. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Evolution Impact on Lancelot. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Evolution Impact on Sakura Kinomoto. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Tooth And Claw on La Sirene du Nord. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Evolution Impact on Mesozoic Maiden Lucy. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has finished attacking. COMBAT: Lancelot narrowly braces Juri Arisugawa's Evolution Impact, taking 7 Fatigue damage! Lancelot's Block ability activates! Lancelot's Parry ability activates! COMBAT: Fuu Hououji fails to dodge Juri Arisugawa's Evolution Impact, taking 29 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto fails to dodge Juri Arisugawa's Evolution Impact, taking 20 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy narrowly braces Juri Arisugawa's Evolution Impact, taking 6 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord narrowly braces Juri Arisugawa's Tooth And Claw, taking 9 Fatigue damage! La Sirene du Nord's Block ability activates! La Sirene du Nord's Parry ability activates! COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom fails to brace Juri Arisugawa's Evolution Impact, taking 19 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Lancelot [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
"Holy Crackers Sparkles! That's a Talking Dinosaur!" Lancelot says as he leans forward and looks at Velocidoctor. "In.... A Lab Coat?" Which is as much time as he ahs, as suddenly ooze is thrown at him. He riases his forearm, leaping off Sparkles, a shield materializing as he does so, the Ooze splattering against it. "Sparkles! Go keep thsoe kids safe!"
He hits the ground as Sparkles goes to make sure her adoring fans (The pigtailed girl) Is safe from further harm. He leaps from the ground into a dead sprint toward the talking dinosaur, Arondight flashing as he goes. "Okay Dino Doc, it's time for you to face Justice!" The white blade slashes, arcing lighting it moves through teh air toward the Velocidoctor.
Lancelot looks around, noting the other Magical Persons in the area and nods once as he says casually. "Meeeeeeeh What's up Doc?"
(He's always wanted to say that....)
COMBAT: Lancelot has used Lightning Slash on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Lancelot has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa narrowly counters Lancelot's Lightning Slash, taking 6 Fatigue damage! Lancelot is Psyched! Juri Arisugawa's Reverse ability activates! Juri Arisugawa's Tactician ability activates! Stagger applied to Juri Arisugawa! COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa's counterattack, Tooth And Claw, partially gets through, doing 10 Fatigue damage to Lancelot! Critical Counterhit!
<Pose Tracker> Fuu Hououji [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed.
While the Wind Knight tries to dodge out of the way of a descending pillar of far-too-cohesive ooze, she comes out of her roll right below ANOTHER pillar of it and is briefly engulfed. When she manages to fight her way clear of it, she's spattered in gooey, sticky, *really smelly* stuff that she'd sooner not think about, and her glasses have gone completely missing. (Which may be for the best; she'd NEVER be able to get this stuff off of them without withdrawing entirely from the fight to do so.)
"I don't think you understand how politics work in the present day, lizard-sensei," she replies to the velocidoctor. "You're not allowed to just claim somebody as your subject when they're already citizens of another government." She brings her left hand up, wiping her glove-jewel off with her fingers. "Maybe you should burrow back into the fossil layer and think it over for another few billion years?"
She takes a moment to look around, nodding hello to the magical girls (and one magical boy; Lancelot sounds familiar from some encounter or other) whom she recognizes ... or at least THINKS she recognizes; some blurs are colored more evocatively than other blurs. With a little work and a lot of squinting, she might be able to confirm faces ... but she doesn't have time for that now.
"Winds of Admonishment!!" the Wind Knight calls out, and a magical tornado whips into existence, flying towards the saurianized scientist and trying to bind her in place at the eye of the whirlwind. Failing that, the green-clad Magic Knight is hoping she can at least interfere with the ooze-manipulation thing.
Her armor is a bit too gunk-covered to tell, but a keen eye (with time to look) might notice that the craftsmanship on her glove-jewel seems ... less fine than it was before. Just a bit.
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Winds of Admonishment on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has finished attacking.
<Pose Tracker> Japanese Cherry Blossom [Juuban Public School (9)] has posed.
"No problem," says Japanese Cherry Blossom, not trying to correct one of her elders. She actually gives a small bow. "It's my pleasure."
But there's other things to worry about.... such as a horrible-smelling ooze! She tries to stand strong against it, but the smell hits her before the frogs do, and everything makes her a bit nauseated. When a frog leaps for her, it strikes her and knocks her straight down into the muck.
When she stands up, she does so with her usual energy, but some ooze is kind of sticking to her. The flowers in her hair look larger and increasingly wilder, vines that are not of her usual type spreading down her legs to her feet.
She sees the dinosaur that's talking, and is reminded of Lucy. She smiles when she sees the Mesosoic Maiden is on the case. But hopefully she can help too. "I don't understand what you mean by the future! Aren't dinosaurs from the past?!" She has a lot of respect for the past... but, just in memory form. Trying to literally change the world in some unusual way... it doesn't seem right. "What you're doing is hurting people; you have to stop!" She shouts this as if she thinks the dino doctor does not actually understand what's going on. "This isn't evolution at all! Just an assault!"
She points at him. "If you think you're going to erase the future and replace it with your vision, I'm going to have to stop you with the rest!"
The flower on her head is still trying to grow into an almost bell-like shape, but she tries to look dignified and ignore this.
COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom has used For Sweet Memories on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa fails to dodge Fuu Hououji's Winds of Admonishment, taking 20 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Fuu Hououji is Psyched! Cripple applied to Juri Arisugawa!
<Pose Tracker> Mesozoic Maiden Lucy [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed.
Lucy and Didi help get a few people to safety, but the situation is not getting any better. Amidst all the chaos, Lucy notices with horror La Sirene's lone struggle against the saber-tooth tiger and, even more alarming, as she looks above...
"Is that Terrorsaurus /talking/?" Lucy asks, squinting. "THAT'S NEW! A TALKING DINOSAUR IS KIND OF ALARMING IF WE'RE BEING PERFECTLY HONEST."
No one has time to ponder the deep irony of that statement, as tendrils of ooze splash towards Lucy and her friends. Dodging is not much of an option when you're riding a fifteen foot-tall carnivore, and Didi ends up taking the brunt of the assault. Lucy leaps off his back just as he goes tumbling backwards and, with a POP! and a cloud of green glitter, he squeaks back to the ground, back to a cute portable size.
"It's okay, I'm fine!" Didi shouts as he peels himself off the ground, "You go get 'em!"
CRASH! Lucy lands back on her feet, right on the pavement under the building Dr. Velocity is standing on.
"Brave as the tyrano! Nimble as the dactyl! Clever as the raptor! I am Mesozoic Maiden Lucy!" she shouts at the Doctor up above, "I don't know who you are and what's going on, but I am very, very mad at you right now! Reverse what you're doing or I'll have to bring down mesozoic might upon you!"
This is good, yes, Lucy thinks. She's never been very good for speeches, but she's on fire today, in direct relation to how desperate the situation is. There's only one problem, which is that she's not sure that raptor is listening to her...
"Hey! I'm TALKING TO YOU!"
The air ripples and a few nearby windows break from the sound of Lucy's shout. She often gets carried away.
COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy has used Hear Me Roar on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa narrowly counters Japanese Cherry Blossom's For Sweet Memories, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Juri Arisugawa is Quipped! Juri Arisugawa's Reverse ability activates! Juri Arisugawa's Tactician ability activates! COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa's counterattack, Faster Than A Speeding Turkey, partially gets through, doing 8 Fatigue damage to Japanese Cherry Blossom! COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa narrowly braces Mesozoic Maiden Lucy's Hear Me Roar, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Mesozoic Maiden Lucy is Psyched! Juri Arisugawa's Block ability activates!
<Pose Tracker> La Sirene du Nord [Ohtori Academy (9)] has posed.
A hissing velocidoctor is there as well. La Sirene's mouth hangs open in sheer shock. It's a dino-day, it would seem! Of course, it's not really a DINO day when she's facing a saber-toothed tiger who's most decidedly non-cuddly!
La Sirene crosses her arms in the face of this charge, not feeling confident in her ability to vault out of the way - and takes a huge, reeking charging crash on the chest, knocking her backwards like a pinball! "Kyaah!" she says, skidding in the slimy residuum on the ground, and hopping back to her feet afterwards. Batiste had been hiding in a pocket, which is definitely a 'good call' in this situation.
"Is this goo the secret of evolution?!" la Sirene says as she scrapes it off her boots. Glaring at the dino-doctor, and then at the sabertooth, she does not immediately charge - instead, she glowers at the creature, pale blue eyes agleam despite the ambiently sunny weather.
She does not blink. Hopefully, this will be intimidating.
Her hair billows artfully in the after-echo of Lucy's majestic shout. La Sirene does not break her gaze, although it's kind of a near thing.
COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord has used Staring Contest 1234 GO on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa fails to dodge La Sirene du Nord's Staring Contest 1234 GO, taking 0 Fatigue damage! La Sirene du Nord is Psyched!
<Pose Tracker> Sakura Kinomoto [Juuban Public School (4)] has posed.
Despite her best attempt to steer the sealing wand out of the way of the ooze, it catches onto the sealing wand and the young girl is thrown onto the ground after being forcefully swatted from the sky by the frogs. As she comes closer to the ground, she skids along the ground as the wand falls by her side. For a few seconds, she remains stunned by the attack. Her vision is changed-everything now is a shade of dark to light gray. She blinks a few times, closing her eyes tightly before opening them to ever so slightly more color. As she continues to readjust her bearings and her vision, she takes a deep breath to collect herself. Something in her is changing, and she is not quite fond of that.
"Sakura! Are you all right?" the small beast flies to her side in concern. While he was untouched by the ooze, he knew she was not quite so likely and it was even less likely that ooze was not coming without some kind of side effects. He could still smell it and it was overpowering, but not enough for him to make some wise crack as the girl was clearly reeling. Instead, he offers guidance and a hint: "I got a little looky-loo at what we're dealin' with, it's some dinosaur in a lab coat!"
At that, Sakura is gritting her teeth which are starting to hurt. Unbeknownst to her, her dentition was changing and she could feel her teeth hurt. "Kero-chan, now isn't the time for a joke!" Using the wand to steady herself up, she begins to walk closer to the fray to get a better idea of the actual situation. For a few seconds, she is quiet before looking at the winged beast before going back to the Velocidoctor before squealing, "THAT IS REALLY GROSS!"
Ignoring her temporary ailments, she brings out the card from her pocket before throwing it in front of her. "O Great Wind, attack with a strong gust of wind! WINDY!" Waving the wand behind her, she brings the wand upon the face of the card and requests the anthropogenic true form of the Windy card. Windy rises into the sky while gaining speed and momentum before driving towards the Velocidoctor in a forceful manner.
COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto has used Mighty Gale on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa fails to dodge Sakura Kinomoto's Mighty Gale, taking 22 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit!
<Pose Tracker> Juri Arisugawa [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
If Dr. Velocity gets Lancelot's joke, she gives no sign of it, instead looking at him with deadened eyes and interposing a single claw between his blade and her body. Lightning pours down it, and off of her in sparks that close with the Knight himself as she slides along the blade to brutally impact his hand. It's a good thing he's wearing some armor.
"IDiOt," she hisses at the Magic Knight of Wind, "YOu miSTaKe SciENTifIC sUbJeCt fOr pOlitiCAl AFFilIAtiOn." Pausing to make that correction, however, gives the whirlwind time to swirl around her. She glares...
...and then disappears, moving with such speed that she's nigh-invisible between where she was and her tail sweeping at Japanese Cherry Blossom's legs. Before she can do more, she's caught in La Sirene's gaze, and then swept away by Cardcaptor Sakura's wind.
She hits the ground hard, and rolls through the goop, which pours off of her, leaving her lab coat strangely pristene. It's almost disgustingly austere, somehow.
The force of Lucy's shout sends some glop up to spatter right across her nose. She sneezes.
"SsssO! i WaS WArNed oF yOu, tHe trAItor aND thE chAMpiOn. ThE eLEphAnT dOeS nOT ForGEt, buT tHE diNOsAuR DoES noT fORgIvE!!"
She lunges forward at impossible velocity, trying to sink her claws into Lucy's arms, while her feet kick up ooze like straw at a barnyard dance.
From the swirling surface that has replaced the road and sidewalks (and increasingly, the river), the flora and fauna comes. A former rosebush now resembles a Venus Fly-Trap of epic proportions as it tries to ingest Lancelot; giant mutant frogs swarm Fuu; the sabertooth takes a lap, then tries to pounce Japanese Cherry Blossom from behind; some simply enormous insects, mosquitos the size of swallows and a spider that could easily be mistaken for that lost soccer ball if it held still, harrass La Sirene from all directions, and Sakura finds herself contending with what might have once been some kind of wildlife in the river, guppies or something, which is now a jagged-toothed, thirty-foot-long electric eel that leaps straight out of the muck, right for her face.
COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Vela... And Friends on Sakura Kinomoto. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Vela... And Friends on La Sirene du Nord. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Vela... And Friends on Japanese Cherry Blossom. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Vela... And Friends on Fuu Hououji. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Vela... And Friends on Lancelot. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Predator and Prey on Mesozoic Maiden Lucy. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has finished attacking. COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy fails to counter Juri Arisugawa's Predator and Prey, taking 42 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy's counterattack, Cretaceous Clobber, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Juri Arisugawa! COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom narrowly dodges Juri Arisugawa's Vela... And Friends, taking 16 Fatigue damage! Stagger and Stun applied to Japanese Cherry Blossom! COMBAT: Fuu Hououji narrowly counters Juri Arisugawa's Vela... And Friends, taking 10 Fatigue damage! Stun applied to Fuu Hououji! COMBAT: Fuu Hououji's counterattack, Spinning Slash, fails to get through, doing 0 Fatigue damage to Juri Arisugawa! COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto narrowly braces Juri Arisugawa's Vela... And Friends, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Stagger and Stun applied to Sakura Kinomoto! COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord narrowly counters Juri Arisugawa's Vela... And Friends, taking 4 Fatigue damage! Stagger and Stun applied to La Sirene du Nord! COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord's counterattack, Les Mysteres, partially gets through, doing 24 Fatigue damage to Juri Arisugawa! COMBAT: Lancelot fails to dodge Juri Arisugawa's Vela... And Friends, taking 19 Fatigue damage! Stagger and Stun applied to Lancelot!
Hikaru Shidou walks over from Tama Outer City. Hikaru Shidou has arrived. Hikaru Shidou has left.
<Pose Tracker> Lancelot [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
Despite some fo the energy from Lancelot's attack getting through, the sword Knight was not expecting the claws. They lash out and strike against his armor creating sparks as the armor is actually ripped in a few places. This causes Lancelot to miss a step and stagger a bit before he catches himself, his eyes narrow. Which is of course when the Venus Fly Trap decides to attack him.
Normally he'd have something for this. Some pithy comment, some smart turn of the phrase. All he has this time is a simple: "Oh."
The Epic Fly Trap form Venus snatches him and procedes to beat the snot out of him. His legs kick feebly in the air as he is taken into the thing and swallowed whole. He blinks furiously inside the thing and a muffled voice from inside the plant says: "Man. Eri would never let me live this down. She'd blame the Bacon."
He closes his eyes and grips his blade, calling forth lightning to strike the plant, and hopefully freeing him from his vegetarian demise.
COMBAT: Lancelot has used Lightning III on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Lancelot has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa narrowly dodges Lancelot's Lightning III, taking 5 Fatigue damage! Juri Arisugawa's Fade ability activates! Juri Arisugawa's Flash ability activates!
<Pose Tracker> Japanese Cherry Blossom [Juuban Public School (9)] has posed.
Sakura Akagi hears her name from another different source. She tilts her head at it for just a second, then notices it's some other Sakura...
"Look out!" shouts Mist, hiding above in a building awning and trying to get her attention...
Almost too late, as she very narrowly jumps out of the way of a charging saber tooth! Her dress is scraped up and muddy from the encounter. "...Okay, well, there's no talking sense into you or your creatures, is there?!" She limps back, a little slowed down from the sudden lunge, but finding some safety away from the ooze. "Cherry Blossom Twister!" A little pink tornado, full of flower petals and edges of glowing wind, streaks out from her hand toward the prehistoric beast.
Mist tries to get a bit closer to Lucy with a few little wingflaps. She seems to kind of know what is going on.
COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom has used Cherry Blossom Twister on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa fails to brace Japanese Cherry Blossom's Cherry Blossom Twister, taking 18 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Fuu Hououji [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed.
Giant frogs pounce at the Magic Knight of Wind from a multitude of directions; her sword appears in her hands, and she pivots around on her heel, trying to counter and knock all of them away.
It doesn't work. At least, it doesn't work as well as she clearly hoped - but these frogs are rather larger than she'd be able to knock away easily, for one thing, and for another, they're not all obligingly leaping into the path of her swing; a few do, but most of them come in above - and one, in fact, lands squarely on her face, knocking the Wind Knight off-balance as she fights to dislodge the frog without also dislodging any of her skin ...
So she can't see to attack, she can't get words out past the frog to cast spells, and she also can't see what she'd be casting AT. Finally, though, she manages to pry the frog loose, and pitches it in the general direction of the Tama River. All of this leaves her pretty dizzy and wobbly, but she gathers up her will before calling out woozily, "Winds of Healing ... !"
A soothing breeze gusts around her momentarily, then spreads further to bathe the young Cardcaptor and the older knight in its balmy, healing caress.
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Winds of Healing on Fuu Hououji. COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Winds of Healing on Lancelot. COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Winds of Healing on Sakura Kinomoto. COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has finished attacking. COMBAT: Fuu Hououji accepts Fuu Hououji's Winds of Healing, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cleanse! All of Fuu Hououji's debuffs are cleared! COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto accepts Fuu Hououji's Winds of Healing, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cleanse! All of Sakura Kinomoto's debuffs are cleared! COMBAT: Lancelot accepts Fuu Hououji's Winds of Healing, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Cleanse! All of Lancelot's debuffs are cleared!
<Pose Tracker> Mesozoic Maiden Lucy [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed.
"/I/ think it looks really cool," Lucy asides from afar to Cherry Blossom, whose plants are getting more primordial by the second.
"Traitor? What do you mean, traitor?" Lucy asks, looking to the other magical girls (and boy) in case they have any idea what the Velocidoctor is talking about. Of course, they wouldn't know any more than she does. She doesn't remember betraying anyone, and she's the champion of her tribe, so does that mean...
Meanwhile, the skedaddling Didi sneezes.
Lucy's eyes widen as the velociraptor charges straight for her. She tries to swing her club to smack Dr. Velocity out of the way, but even she can't keep up, and she gets knocked down for her trouble. Claws sink into her, the dinosaur's ferocious assault even draws a little blood(!) and that maw looks like it could bite her head off.
Lucy screams.
Her face pale, she loosens her grip on her club. She wasn't nimble enough to evade that attack and she's all out of clever ideas (and then again, outsmarting a raptor scientist sounds like a losing proposition). But then, there's another thing she is...
She's brave.
Her fist tightens before her weapon's handle slips out, and with a monumental effort in spite of the pain, she swings right back at Velocity's head. Even if it doesn't hit, the threat of it should at least get her to /back off/.
COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy has used Queen of Clubs on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa narrowly dodges Mesozoic Maiden Lucy's Queen of Clubs, taking 15 Fatigue damage! Mesozoic Maiden Lucy is Psyched! Juri Arisugawa's Fade ability activates! Juri Arisugawa's Flash ability activates!
(New BB message (6/106) posted to 'Vacations' by Hikaru Shidou: Medical Imbalance)
<Pose Tracker> La Sirene du Nord [Ohtori Academy (9)] has posed.
La Sirene does not understand the conversation Fuu is having with the terrorsaurian, but it sounds important. However, she finds herself locking eyes with that dinosaur -
And it's a curious thing. The cold sorrows of the Sea of Tears, while humane and diverse, are their own thing - an ecological niche, perhaps, but one more of landscape than life. The impression la Sirene feels for an instant is one of hot vibrancy, however coolly contained.
A vibrant, buzzing strength. A deep and crawling vitality, she thinks. Buzzing with force. Buzzing with power. Buzzing with -
A proboscis rips through her pocket, narrowly missing Batiste and scratching her own personal leg. So that's what was buzzing! With a scream, la Sirene's hands rise up in the stiff-armed guitar-strike of her signature charm, the ripple of silvering light out and the ghostly chord of wailing sound pushing the mosquitos away before they can begin their grim feast -- which leaves her completely safe and preserved. Exhaling, she reaches up to adjust her little cap--
The spider rests one leg on her hand.
La Sirene lets out a shriek of her own, and with a sudden revulsion-fueled twitch of the body, HURLS the arachnid towards Dr. Velocity! If she'd met this spider with less surprise, she might have befriended it -- but conflict breeds many tragedies!
COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord has used Thrown Spider on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa narrowly braces La Sirene du Nord's Thrown Spider, taking 5 Fatigue damage! Juri Arisugawa's Block ability activates! Diversion applied to Juri Arisugawa!
<Pose Tracker> Sakura Kinomoto [Juuban Public School (4)] has posed.
"I told you soooo~" Keroberos sings out before a massive eel comes flying for the two. He manages to soar above it, flying above to avoid it. "Grossgrossgross! What is wrong with you?!" he hisses at the Velocidoctor.
Sakura, on the other hand, is not quite as lucky. The eel comes close to her as it grazes her cheek. Again, she can feel side effects after each time she is hit by something related to that ooze. This time, her teeth become more pronounced and pokes out from her mouth. Even the sealing wand is experiencing changes; instead of pink, there are patchy spots on it where it becomes more scaled and a duochrome of gray and green.
Feeling her tooth poking through, Sakura becomes frustrated. "I better be able to fix this!" And fortunately, it is at that moment where Fuu's spell reaches her. Her green eyes close and when she opens them, she can feel the tooth retreating and her color vision is back. Everything is rich with color, and she can almost cry in gratitude. "Thank you so much!" she cries towards the Magic Knight. After all, the last thing she would want is for her brother to have actual ammunition behind calling her a monster, especially with Yukito present.
Her focus is back on the battle at hand and with her sealing wand remaining in her hand, she twirls it before pointing at the eel stuck on land. "WINDY! Create a gust and blow this back to its owner!" Of which she meant the Velocidoctor. Once more, the anthropogenic form of wind flew through the sky before carrying the eel towards the lab-coated dinosaur, busy taking a bite out of Lucy.
COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto has used Clever Distraction on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa narrowly dodges Sakura Kinomoto's Clever Distraction, taking 4 Fatigue damage! Juri Arisugawa's Fade ability activates! Juri Arisugawa's Flash ability activates! Diversion and Tangle applied to Juri Arisugawa!
<Pose Tracker> Juri Arisugawa [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
The Venus Fly Trap throws itself out of the way of Lancelot's lightning, but in avoiding being crispily fried winds up allowing gravity to do the Knight's work for him -- he simply falls out of those spikey jaws. The piece of hungry flora then throws itself bodily in the way of Japanese Cherry Blossom's twister, which vaporizes it entirely. There isn't much left to return to the goo.
"YoU fEIgn IGnoRaNcE?" Dr. Velocity hisses in Lucy's face, her breath hot and even stinkier than the ooze. She has more respect for the club, though, and jerks out of the way, skittering backwards with predatory speed.
She starts to circle around one side when a spider comes straight for her face. She blinks, momentarily and critically distracted, then eats it.
...then a massive electric eel does the same thing--
--with the same outcome.
This is definitely a good time to strike, and strike hard. Electricity from the eel's flesh is pouring through her fangs and crackling down her sleek muscles, from the tip of her nose to the tip of her tail. When she's done gorging...
The ooze waits for no one, however. Sans her attention and control, it bubbles and boils, trying to suck anyone it can into it like quicksand! Creepy, stinky, mutating quicksand!
COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Evolution Impact on Sakura Kinomoto. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Evolution Impact on La Sirene du Nord. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Evolution Impact on Mesozoic Maiden Lucy. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Evolution Impact on Fuu Hououji. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Evolution Impact on Japanese Cherry Blossom. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Evolution Impact on Lancelot. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has finished attacking. COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy fails to brace Juri Arisugawa's Evolution Impact, taking 21 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord fails to brace Juri Arisugawa's Evolution Impact, taking 23 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto fails to brace Juri Arisugawa's Evolution Impact, taking 19 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Lancelot fails to brace Juri Arisugawa's Evolution Impact, taking 24 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom fails to brace Juri Arisugawa's Evolution Impact, taking 17 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Lancelot [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
Having jsut been thrown form a ginormous Venus Fly Trap meant that Lancelot was not quick enough and finds himself now stuck in the path of the Oooze, and sinking into it. He blinks, and briefly wonders if he is about to turn into a Turtle.
Or a Ninja.
Instead his armor becomes.... Archaic. Bones and Leather. Only Arondight, the mighty Demon's Bane survives whole. He hefts himself forward and lashes at the Dinosaur Doctor, his balde flashing and arcing as he calls out: "BLADE FURY!!" He moves at tremendous speed, and manages to shed some fo the goop as he does so, as lightning sparks and errupts with every movement.
COMBAT: Lancelot has used Bladefury on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Lancelot has finished attacking.
<Pose Tracker> Japanese Cherry Blossom [Juuban Public School (9)] has posed.
Cherry Blossom screams as a big blast of ooze and muck shoots for her. She doesn't do a good job of getting out of the way at all, and momentarily chokes as slime totally covers her.
She tries to sweep some off, to discover that her little kimono outfit is now made of some kind of white fur, the sleeves much shorter and ragged, and long vines are now curling around her legs with abandon. She is no longer sure what plant her powers are being devolved to, but the smell is... a bit off, something mixed with a prehistoric flavor.
Mist hovers with little wing flaps trying to appraise this. He certainly seems to think better of it than Cherry Blossom does herself.
After an awkward moment, she clears her throat and looks back at the dino. "I don't know about your fashion sense either, but you can't hurt people no matter what. Nature won't let you reverse everything..."
She presses her palms together, and thinks about cherry blossoms... "Cherry trees, come give us aid!" A few strong branches rise up from the ooze, and, covered in pure white and pink flowers, leap over to tangle up the dino doc and slow her down. These don't seem so prehistoric, but the vines get thick everywhere they touch the ooze, even the magic of perfume a bit effected. "Do you... really know what she's talking about?" she looks over at Lucy and asks. Velocity certainly seems to think she does anyway.
COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom has used Cherry Tree Magic on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa narrowly braces Japanese Cherry Blossom's Cherry Tree Magic, taking 5 Fatigue damage! Juri Arisugawa's Block ability activates! COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa perfectly dodges Lancelot's Bladefury, taking 0 Fatigue damage! Critical Dodge! Juri Arisugawa's Fade ability activates! Juri Arisugawa's Flash ability activates! COMBAT: Fuu Hououji narrowly braces Juri Arisugawa's Evolution Impact, taking 6 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Mesozoic Maiden Lucy [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed.
Lucy gets back on her feet after the Velociraptor leaps off of her, cuts and bruises on her arms and legs. That was a close shave, but she's ready for round two now.
"I'm not really sure what she's talking about? She's a Terrorsaurus from my world," Lucy finally catches her friends and fellow magical girls up, "But /you're/ different, aren't you?" she directs her words to Dr. Velocity with a scowl. "Terrorsaurus didn't use to talk! You're getting stronger and smarter every time we meet! What for? What's making you this mad at us?"
She's specifically not saying they're evolving, because she's been trying to cut down on clichés a little bit.
The electric eel might prevent her from providing a coherent answer, but the silver lining is that Lucy and her friends can capitalize on that opening. Sparks are flying, and the Mesozoic Maiden only has to blow in her direction to infuse them with her magic, and ignite them into a powerful deflagration!
But she can only fire and forget when /quicksand/ gets thrown into the mix. Lucy has nowhere to run, and tries to instead stand her ground. But even with her prodigious strength, she slips and gets herself coated in the nasty, nasty stuff.
...A moment later, a brave creature crawls out of the water, and onto the land.
Clad in a trilobite shell cuirass, accessorized with resplendent coral, a large fern-like plant tucked over her ear like a plume, and an enormous jewelled fishbone in her hand, another Lucy steps up to face this threat.
"Tenacious as the coelacanth! Ingenious as the ammonite! Lively as the ichtyostega! I am Paleolithic Princess Lucy! Foul beasts, have you and your queen not learned your lesson the last time? This planet is under MY protection, and you are NOT welcome!"
Those who know Lucy won't recognize that tone of voice. Even the sound of it isn't quite the same.
COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy has used Blast from the Past on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa fails to brace Mesozoic Maiden Lucy's Blast from the Past, taking 24 Fatigue damage! Exhausted applied to Juri Arisugawa!
<Pose Tracker> La Sirene du Nord [Ohtori Academy (9)] has posed.
La Sirene's mouth hangs open widely enough after Dr. Velocity just snarfs that spider down that a stray mosquito is able to fly in, then back out. She does not seem to have room in her head to parse that happening.
But others are moving. Lancelot, and - Wait -
Something's on her outfit. Batiste bolts out of her pocket, climbing on top of her head as la Sirene looks down in horror, her graceful coat's lace degrading down into something positively Elizabethian, complete with a neck ruffle and a curious impression of leopardskin and ermine. "What--"
It reaches a final position as a creation of interthreaded gray sealskin with a hood that's flipped back. La Sirene's Black Mirror is at least unaffected (and indeed may predate the invention of sealskin parkas), and it is this that she brandishes now, protectively.
When Lucy speaks, in a new and forceful voice, la Sirene looks towards her. Her mouth opens slightly: that outfit...
It's gorgeous!!
Her tastes are, of course, distinctive.
However, she has to do more than simply stand here and admire outfits, even if her eyes flick momentarily up to Mist. Her cheeks puff out as she exhales, but as she brandishes the mirror with one hand, she draws her other up. "Les Mysteres, attend me -- Les Mysteres, come!!"
The downward stroke evokes the streaks of silvery light and the squigglingly gorgeous veves behind her, although the patterns are... subtly different, in ways that only the persistence of vision can reveal. The silvery blast towards the Terrorsaur is the same, though!
"Does that mean they're evolving?!" she calls to Lucy, accepting her planetary protection at her word.
COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord has used Les Mysteres on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa narrowly braces La Sirene du Nord's Les Mysteres, taking 11 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Juri Arisugawa's Block ability activates!
<Pose Tracker> Fuu Hououji [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed.
The Magic Knight of Wind digs her heels and her sword into the solid pavement she's standing on; the sword braces her position quite a bit better than her feet do, and while the current of suction threatens her balance, she manages to remain upright.
On the other hand, she also can't attack with her sword while it's keeping her more or less where she's standing. She braces a boot against it, focuses ... and her bow and quiver appear as well. "I should hope it doesn't," she answers La Sirene du Nord - and then does a double-take. "Goodness, another ancient-themed magical girl named Lucy? Not that I'm complaining, a new ally is always welcome ..."
She turns her attention back towards the direction of the saurian scientist's voice, nocking an arrow to her bowstring, pulling it back, and letting it fly. It's probably a bad idea to start launching arrows when her eyesight is this tentative, but she's kind of short on better options.
COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has used Basic Archery on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa fails to dodge Fuu Hououji's Basic Archery, taking 8 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Sakura Kinomoto [Juuban Public School (4)] has posed.
It was nice while it lasted.
She gets sucked into the ooze and while Keroberos is doing what he can to retrieve her from the sludge, her saving grace comes from holding up the Fly card and having the sealing wand's beak touch it. In each movement, she descends further into the quicksand-like ooze before calling out, "FLY!" and allowing the sealing wand to drive upward and outward of the sludge.
The sealing wand is looking more feral; the scales are not only back, but the colors are muted. Its wings are changed; instead of resembling something angelic, it resembles more of a pteradactyl's wings; membrane filling the space between the 'bones.' Though she is still retaining her color vision, her sense of smell is increased and she screams while the ooze slimes over her. The smell alone is overpowering, much less its effects on her. Her eyes have changed to resemble that of a certain strepsirrhine, wide-eyed, rounded, and brown instead of white. It takes a few minutes, but with enough strength and pull, and a more wild, unrefined quality to the Fly card, she eventually wrestles free.
"Please, let me return the favor!" The Cardcaptor's hand reaches down towards the Magic Knight in an attempt to free her from the sludge, using the same strength it had exhibited earlier with Sakura.
COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto has used Sakura Airways Here to Help! on Fuu Hououji. COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto has finished attacking. COMBAT: Fuu Hououji accepts Sakura Kinomoto's Sakura Airways Here to Help!, taking 0 Fatigue damage!
<Pose Tracker> Juri Arisugawa [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
Lancelot charges back in with all the fury of his Demon Blade behind him, and finds the raptor once again blindingly, frustratingly fast, abandoning her meal at his violent behest. She slips away from the sword as though she is the wind that's being leveraged against her so violently, every few seconds. Japanese Cherry Blossom's trees blossom beautifully around her feet, and slow her some, but do not stop her. Sweet-scented splinters, from where she's forcing her way through, scatter into the ooze, which burbles a welcome to this new bit of matter, then blooms something sickly sweet and brilliant orange.
They puff out green-glowing, soporific spores, right in her face (and close enough to Lancelot's as to make no never mind), before Lucy's fireball incinerates them and singes the raptor's tail, to boot. "INsssssoLeNcE," Dr. Velocity complains, then goggle-eyes, as what is emerging from the gook is... not something she recognizes. "MaIDeN oR PRinCeSsss, iT mAttERs NoT! I WIll PrePAre ThIS WoRlD fOR ThE CoMInG oF My DaRK mAsTeRS!"
Rolling with the impact of La Sirene's silvery blast, the raptor comes up goopey from the ground just in time for Fuu's arrow to sprout from her shoulder. Shrieking in pain, she leaps away, running straight up the wall onto the roof of a community center where elders play croquet.
There's a second water tower up there (remember where all this goo came from in the first place?) and she's headed straight for it.
But it won't be so easy to catch up... not when the ooze erupts with mammoth, blatantly toxic butterflies, and -- now things are getting really weird -- fly-winged, blatantly toxic mammoths! What were /they/ before the ooze hit them? It's a stampede of primal proportions, and between the razor-sharp antennae, the unimaginably heavy stompy feet, speartip tusks and goo-matted fur, all charging for the magical girls, they're in quite a pinch indeed.
COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Vela... And Friends on Sakura Kinomoto. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Vela... And Friends on Fuu Hououji. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Vela... And Friends on La Sirene du Nord. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Vela... And Friends on Mesozoic Maiden Lucy. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Vela... And Friends on Japanese Cherry Blossom. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has used Vela... And Friends on Lancelot. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa has finished attacking. COMBAT: Lancelot narrowly braces Juri Arisugawa's Vela... And Friends, taking 3 Fatigue damage! Lancelot's Block ability activates! Lancelot's Parry ability activates! Stagger and Stun applied to Lancelot! COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom narrowly braces Juri Arisugawa's Vela... And Friends, taking 8 Fatigue damage! Japanese Cherry Blossom's Block ability activates! Stagger and Stun applied to Japanese Cherry Blossom! COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord fails to dodge Juri Arisugawa's Vela... And Friends, taking 18 Fatigue damage! Stagger and Stun applied to La Sirene du Nord! COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto fails to dodge Juri Arisugawa's Vela... And Friends, taking 17 Fatigue damage! Stun applied to Sakura Kinomoto! COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy narrowly braces Juri Arisugawa's Vela... And Friends, taking 3 Fatigue damage! Stagger and Stun applied to Mesozoic Maiden Lucy! COMBAT: Fuu Hououji narrowly braces Juri Arisugawa's Vela... And Friends, taking 13 Fatigue damage! Stagger and Stun applied to Fuu Hououji!
<Pose Tracker> Lancelot [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
And now the insects. And other.... Things. Lancelot barely gets his balde up in time to deflect a swarm of attacks, Arondight flashing and energy arcing to intercept incoming swarms just in time. Once the initial swarm passes him over, Lancelot turns to look at the Good Doctor and makes a fist.
From this fist a spark of lighting emerges. "Okay. You want fast?" He takes a deep breath and crouches low calling out, "CHAAAAARGIIIIIING..."
Lighting cascades from the balde in washing waves of brilliant white light and blistering heat. Strikes of brilliant blue lighting begin to fall from the sky slamming into the ground with ever increasing speeds, creating a a torrent of thunder as the strikes boom and explode into the ground around Lancelot and into the blade of Arondight. He opens his eyes, awash with that same light from the lighting, "ASSAULT!!"
Suddenly is all over Dr. Velocity, the shining white blade of Arondight slashing, stabbing, hacking form a hundred different directions. Each strike releasing a thunderous boom as the lighting stored in the blade errupts. Windows shatter, the Ooze ripples, the ground shakes.
When the strike is finished, he kneels, steam rolling off him and great plumes of the steam coming off Arondight. He pants slightly form the exertion of it all and beads of sweat dot his brow. He looks at the Dinosaur to see if she still stnads, and just waits.
COMBAT: FINISHER! Lancelot has used Charging Assault on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Lancelot has finished attacking.
<Pose Tracker> Japanese Cherry Blossom [Juuban Public School (9)] has posed.
Mist looks quite impressed with the new Lucy as well. He blinks. Maybe that Lucy is discovering her true memories as well. But this muck doesn't smell particularly good.... "Did she say... Dark Masters?" he asks suddenly, looking at Lucy, and then at Japanese Cherry Blossom. "... I know that sounds bad!"
Cherry Blossom, however, has more to worry about: weird, gooey, stampeding creatures! She stands her ground and holds out her hands, closing her eyes a little as she prepares for the worst. They mostly seem to just barely graze around her, but she's scratched a little in passing. In particular, the ooze continues to build up around her feet, which look practically rooted into the ground now with vines. She makes a slightly grossed-out face, and snaps her foot free of the primal build-up.
She looks at Velocity with narrowing eyes. "All right. I was willing to give you some doubt, because... the past is so important. It's important to me and to my friends too."
She puts her hands on her hips. "But-- you can't go around replacing the present, either. This world belongs to the people who live here, not the creatures of the past! We respect and honor them, but we also want to make the world a better place for here and today! I won't let those dark masters you serve destroy the future!"
She looks a bit pained, both from fatigue and a bit of uncertainty, but she begins to lower her hands and prepare herself... "Cherry Blossom..."
Her fur-like outfit still picks up the pink winds that begin to grow around her. Her skirt flutters, and she crosses her arms, before moving in a delicate spin and bringing her hands wide apart. Pink wind forms a flurry. The petals that she generates from this are larger than usual, as the larger flower on her head has grown a bit still, but the smell is still the same, that of perfume and springtime, with glitter and gold. "Elimination!"
COMBAT: FINISHER! Japanese Cherry Blossom has used Cherry Blossom Elimination on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Japanese Cherry Blossom has finished attacking.
<Pose Tracker> Mesozoic Maiden Lucy [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed.
It's a bit hard to tell whether the Meso-- Paleolithic Princess is even recognizing La Sirene when she addresses her. "Yes. They are indeed evolving."
This particular Lucy doesn't mind indulging in clichés at all.
"I will stop your masters, just as I will stop you!" She charges ahead and swings her fishbone with reckless abandon, she cuts down to size and swats down the blatantly toxic creatures getting in her and the others' way. Goop flies at her, but not enough to speed her strange transformation even further.
"Now is the time!" she shouts to the heavens, and to her allies, "Let us purify this twisted primordial magic away from her!" She holds up her weapon triumphantly. "Goddess Terra, lend me but a fraction of your power!" The gemstone embedded in it glows bright, and bright green flame bursts out of it, engulfing her.
The fishbone club is stone once more. When Lucy emerges from the flames, her long hair still trails in the air as it continues to magically burn. Her costume is in the middle of yet another transformation, hopefully back to normal this time.
"I love my home, but your idea of it is all wrong!" Lucy sounds like Lucy again, although with booming yet ethereal reverb in her voice. It's a testament to the strangeness of her life that this is more normal. "Besides, Earth doesn't need a big makeover! So all I have left to say is... BLAZE OF THE GODDESS!"
She points the Rock of Ages triumphantly at Dr. Velocity, and an enormous torrent of divine green flame surges forth. Lucy grits her teeth and closes her eyes, pouring every little bit of power she still has into it. The flames fan out to, hopefully, start undoing the damage that's been done...
COMBAT: FINISHER! Mesozoic Maiden Lucy has used Blaze of the Goddess on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Mesozoic Maiden Lucy has finished attacking.
<Pose Tracker> La Sirene du Nord [Ohtori Academy (9)] has posed.
Clutching her sealskin parka close (sorry, Madoka) la Sirene stomps forwards, her mighty boots at least still mighty enough to wade through the muck. She glances up at Sakura Airlines as it passes overhead, but this she does not begrudge - no, not in the slightest.
What she does begrudge is the arrival of...
"What are those things, even?!" la Sirene wails in frustration.
"Relax, Cousin! These are the effects of this goop she's throwing everywhere... I think that if you wash it away, it will probably end the effects, and restore the people to their original form!"
La Sirene glances up. "Really?"
"I am actually just guessing," Batiste admits, dry-washing his paws together, "but the Foudre charm would risk smashing open that tank she is going for... we will have to trust in the tempest."
"This really isn't good, is it," la Sirene murmurs. But before she can raise up the Black Mirror, a mammothoid smashes forwards, trampling over her and pushing her onto her back, on the ground! Fortunately the hood of her sealskin parka flips up, sparing her hair the horror of devolution.
But she's also, now, rather stuck. But the Mirror is in her hand. She raises it up - supporting it with both hands...
Air rises out of it, with the scent of a tropical rainstorm. It is probably clearest to Japanese Cherry Blossom, the scent of foreign seas underneath a darkling sky. The details are however harder to miss once the spell really gets rolling - "L'appel de la Tempete!" la Sirene calls out, as the wind kicks up. It's already rather stormy, so what this contributes is a sudden washing out of intensely humid and electrically charged air...
Which swirls in fragrant winds and admonishing breezes, grows denser, and then BURSTS into a sudden storm of torrential rain and a few cracks of thunder, if no real, fundamental lightning. Nonetheless, it's quite a shocking freak burst of weather -- if one that seems to focus itself, as best it can, to be atop the Terrorsaurus and its mammotley goo crew!
COMBAT: FINISHER! La Sirene du Nord has used L'Appel de la Tempete on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: La Sirene du Nord has finished attacking.
<Pose Tracker> Fuu Hououji [Infinity Institute (9)] has posed.
"Thank you!" the Wind Knight calls out, dismissing her bow (and sword) to grasp the offered hand; a moment later, she's pulled free of the mire. And a moment after that she's getting used as an impromptu pinata by a sudden swarm of monsters, while she can't really do much more than grit her teeth and tank through it.
... well, that's not quite true. She can see something - presumably the villain of the day - racing up a building towards that water tower, even though there are a ton and a slew of monsters - or rather, violently prehistoric creatures - in between her, Sakura, and the Terrorsaurus. There's also the small but terribly relevant detail that neither she nor Sakura can necessarily keep this up forever - Sakura flying and holding the Wind Knight's arm, and the Wind Knight hanging on by one arm ... something has to give, and Fuu doesn't fancy falling into the thick of the natural-history exhibit that's been unleashed.
"Hang on tightly for a few more seconds, card-user-san! EMERALD CYCLONE!!"
Gale-force winds rip forth at the Magic Knight's bidding, plowing into the mass of animals and, for the most part, hurling them aside with the force you'd expect of such winds. This has the useful immediate benefit (hopefully, anyway) of clearing enough space for the Cardcaptor and the Magic Knight to touch down again; it should also do an adequate number on thinning out the horde - and possibly applying some brakes on the Terrorsaurus herself.
COMBAT: FINISHER! Fuu Hououji has used Emerald Cyclone: Full on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Fuu Hououji has finished attacking.
<Pose Tracker> Sakura Kinomoto [Juuban Public School (4)] has posed.
"You're welcome!" Sakura's hands are holding tightly onto Fuu, while Keroberos comes close to help in the case her strength may falter. Although the guardian beast was not nearly as strong as in his true form, he still maintained enough power to carry something much larger than himself should he have the need.
"Yo, girlies, be careful!" the small beast cries, pointing at the oncoming onslaught of creatures. While he does so, Sakura's arms become scratched and cut in the process while holding Fuu and having her skin exposed. In each attack, her sealing wand and herself change-resembling more and more like a strepsirrhine. She can feel her nose taking on a cold and wet appearance, and she is /not/ happy.
Once there is space, Sakura allows the Magic Knight gently before she nimbly leaps to the floor. Though she is tired, hurt, and frustrated about looking as she does (especially when Yukito-san was expected to be coming tonight), the Cardcaptor is frustrated enough that she takes out the Windy card once more and tosses it in front of her, touching the card with the former-toucan-beak-now-much-sharper before releasing the Windy from its card form.
"Create a wind so strong it can send this monster back in time, WINDY!"
COMBAT: FINISHER! Sakura Kinomoto has used All Together Now on Juri Arisugawa. COMBAT: Sakura Kinomoto has finished attacking. COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa fails to dodge Lancelot's Finisher, Charging Assault, taking 152 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa fails to dodge Japanese Cherry Blossom's Finisher, Cherry Blossom Elimination, taking 72 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa fails to brace Mesozoic Maiden Lucy's Finisher, Blaze of the Goddess, taking 81 Fatigue damage! COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa narrowly dodges La Sirene du Nord's Finisher, L'Appel de la Tempete, taking 54 Fatigue damage! Juri Arisugawa is unable to keep fighting! Juri Arisugawa's Fade ability activates! Juri Arisugawa's Flash ability activates! COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa narrowly dodges Fuu Hououji's Finisher, Emerald Cyclone: Full, taking 23 Fatigue damage! Juri Arisugawa is unable to keep fighting! Juri Arisugawa's Fade ability activates! Juri Arisugawa's Flash ability activates! COMBAT: Juri Arisugawa fails to brace Sakura Kinomoto's Finisher, All Together Now, taking 52 Fatigue damage! Critical Hit! Juri Arisugawa is unable to keep fighting!
<Pose Tracker> Juri Arisugawa [Ohtori Academy (11)] has posed.
The Emerald Cyclone, mighty power of the Magic Knight of Wind, does its work, and it does it well. Mammoths, butterflies, flora and goop, tendrils of ooze and wayward river water -- all of it is blown to either side, creating a path.
Lancelot charges up this path, laying his blade about with abandon; right and left and right again, finally faster than his raptor prey, which may be faster than a knight but is not faster than light. And electric eel-consumed energy is no match for the divine wrath of the heavens.
The pink winds of Japanese Cherry Blossom pour upwards in his wake, bringing with them a blizzard of huge blossoms and the strength of springtime along with its scent. They impact globs of wayward goo, enveloping and purifying them, as well as rushing around the raptor, tearing relentlessly at her tail and muzzle and claws.
Rain, too, comes down from the firmament with shattering force, summoned by La Sirene du Nord. It destroys ooze with the power of dilution, and bludgeons the raptor, as well as the wind-tossed creatures, with all the primal fury of the elements -- a power older than the dinosaurs.
Cardcaptor Sakura's final invocation of wind collects much of the water and bears it upwards, slamming the raptor spread-eagled into the nearby water tower with enough force to leave a raptor-shaped dent, arms, legs, tail, and all. Dr. Velocity struggles, tries to find defiant words, to shape them, but they cannot be heard over the howling of Windy's full strength.
Unable to lift a single miserable muscle, she cannot escape the Blaze of the Goddess, the sacred power of the Mesozoic Maiden and others before her. Her scream becomes faintly audible over the sound of the torrential green flames cascading over her hide and the entire landscape, to boot; a flame that cleanses more than it purges, briefly nothing can be seen but verdant energy that spills behind eyelids and beneath fingernails, the fires of creation fizzing through veins and lungs.
When it clears, the damage has been undone; there is no sign of the ooze, or the strange animals and plants, only normal Tokyo wildlife, such as it is, cats and dogs and fish and bushes and vines and trees and flowers. The sun shines down untroubled. The kids return to collect their soccer ball, then decide, instincts guided by a more powerful force of inhibited recognition, that it's safe for them to renew their game.
Over in JAXA, Dr. Lili Oseki wakes up at her desk, blinking away tears from a terrible nightmare that is already fading from her conscious mind.
It remains in her subconscious, however, kneading the shadows a few times with its claws before settling in for a nap.
